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Tied with electrical tape, hidden under fir twigs, no panties. Death.
With the help of new DNA, the prosecutor now hopes to convict the murderer of 16-year-old Malin Lindström, who has been at large since 1996.
But Leif GW Persson, who has been a harsh critic of the police investigation, is skeptical:
– It is completely unnecessary how this has happened.
With ripped jeans and seven stabs in the back. This is how 16-year-old Malin Lindström from Örnsköldsvik was finally found in 1996. She had then been missing for six months, since the night she took the bus to her friend in Husum, but never arrived.
A 19-year-old man, who changed his story about the night many times, was convicted of the murder in district court in 1998, but was acquitted in the court of appeal that same year. Among other things, the DNA traces were considered too weak with the technology of the time.
But now NFC, the National Forensic Center, has made a “sensational discovery,” chief prosecutor Mats Svensson tells the Allehanda newspaper, which revealed the breakthrough in the morning.
– It is an incredibly interesting situation that has arisen with the success of NFC in producing a searchable DNA profile. Thanks to that, I’m now working on one of the most interesting emerging cases in a long time, says Svensson, who is leading the preliminary investigation in hopes that the Supreme Court will pick up the case.
Wants to investigate sperm traces
The strongest DNA traces they have now managed to produce come from a sperm stain on a shirt Malin was wearing when they found her. But according to Leif GW Persson, professor of criminology, the finding will not be enough.
Since 2010, there is no statute of limitations for murder in Sweden. But if the suspect was under the age of 21 when the crime was committed, the murder will prescribe after 15 years.
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Malin Lindström.
Photo: NICLAS HAMMARSTRÖM
Police barricades at the crime scene.
The Supreme Court must now decide whether the crime is prescribed in the case of the suspect, who must be 18 years old when the act was committed.
– With the legislation in force at the time, this is prohibited by law, says Leif GW Persson with cross-confidence.
GW: “All hell”
Chief Prosecutor Mats Svensson is aware of the difficulties, but will claim the interruption of the statute of limitations because the suspect has been arrested and prosecuted. Something that Leif GW Persson is skeptical about.
– No, forget it. The Supreme Court cannot decide on amendments to the law, this is a closed case. There are very compelling details that the suspect is guilty, so how this happened is completely unnecessary.
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The place where Malin Lindström was found.
Leif GW believes that the investigation has fallen apart at several points and blames Sven-Åke Christianson, a memory expert who, among other things, has been in bad weather for tours of Sture Bergwall and in Kevin’s case, for the accident.
“This is a murder that should have been solved, they were the right man,” GW has said previously, something he supports today.
– During the reconstruction, questions were asked in the style of “if you had done that, how would you have proceeded?” and the like, while at the same time explaining how the crime had occurred. The murder has been solved but they did it for that, says GW.
Dad: “Fantastic”
Chief Prosecutor Mats Svensson believes there are several reasons for going up. Especially when a newly developed DNA profile test could detect another killer.
And for Malin’s parents, hope lives on after the tragic event.
– Fantastic. Now maybe everyone can find out who murdered our daughter, says Father Rune Lindström to Allehanda.
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